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Today’s Novel Festival Deadline: FOOD & DRINK Novel Festival

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Submit your FOOD & DRINK Book by the deadline. (non-fiction or fiction)

Submit your novel here: https://documentaryshortfilmfestival.com/food-and-drink-novel-festival/

NON-FICTION – Can be about the origins, preparations, families, or nutritional values of food. Can be about different types of cuisine and/or about the history of certain foods or drink.

FICTION – In a novel food and drink can show the culture, history, and environment of a fictional world. For example, the spices used in a stew or the rites around a particular beverage can reveal a lot about the society that created them. It can also represent and symbolic theme in the novel about society, status, and norms.

Watch Novel Performance Readings:

Get FULL FEEDBACK on either the 1st chapter or entire novel book from our committee of Professional Writers, and Writing Consultants. Get your novel performed by a professional actor at the festival.

NEW OPTION: Or, just submit for an actor performance reading transcript of your novel (any 5 pages of your book). Great way to promote the sales of your book if you’re already published. (see examples on the video playlist below)

SUBMIT your novel now (both your 1st chapter or full novel accepted) To be eligible for our Writing Festival Events. Submissions take 3-5 weeks for evaluation

Submit a novel book and get it seen by the world.

A great way to get your words out there, obtain the Agent you’re looking for or just get your story seen by more people. If you win, your story will be seen by 100,000s of people when it’s read online using a top professional actor. It’s a rush you’ll never experience in your life seeing it come to life that way.

Today’s FilmFreeway Testimonial: WILDsound Festival – TOP 100 BEST REVIEWED Film Festival

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Deadline Today to Submit via FilmFreway:

From FilmFreeway on December 1st, 2024

Dear WILDsound FEEDBACK Film and Screenplay Festival,

Congratulations! Your festival has ranked as one of the Top 100 Best Reviewed Festivals on FilmFreeway for the month of November!

According to reviews from real FilmFreeway users, your festival ranks in the top 1% of more than 14,000 film festivals and creative contests around the world. No doubt, this ranking is a testament to the countless hours of hard work and care that you and your staff have devoted to creating such a wonderful event.

We’re especially proud to be partnered with amazing events like yours that help independent film continue to thrive.

Film Podcast EP. 1373 – Musicians Kevin Osorio, Felix Goransch, Sawyer Smith (NEW WORLD music video)

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NEW WORLD, 3min,. USA
Directed by Kevin Brayant Osorio
New World is a chaotic and bizarre song, featuring a stop motion music video just as chaotic and just as bizarre. New World has an angular dark burn and a certain obliqueness. New World is the kind of chaos we all get

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Get to know the filmmaker:

What motivated you to make this film?
Originally, we were going to make a hand drawn, frame by frame animation for the music video. It was laid out and storyboarded, but it didn’t pan out. The best alternate/immediate option seemed to be making a stop motion music video instead.

What were your initial reactions when watching the audience talking about your film in the feedback video?
It’s very nice and flattering to see the audience’s reactions. Most times, you know people have viewed something you’ve made, but that doesn’t mean you’ve gotten a “reaction” from them; especially online. Creating can be very one sided. Initial/immediate reactions are interesting to me. You can only make one first impression.

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Watch Today’s Festival: MUSIC Film Festival

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Watch Film Festival HERE:  https://www.wildsound.ca/todays-film-festival/videos/music-festival-december

Go to the Daily Film Festival Platform http://www.wildsound.ca and sign up for the free 7 day trial to watch a new and original festival every single day.

Go to the festival page directly and watch dozens of films:
https://www.wildsound.ca/todays-film-festival/

SEE THE FULL LINEUP OF FILMS:

LINOLEUM – Alain Chamfort / Cie Niki Noves, 6min., France
Directed by Niki Noves
In a dark room, we find two men forehead to forehead, sitting on the floor, heads connected by a helmet with an organic look. They are surrounded by silhouettes motionless and tense. In parallel in a sanitized white space, these two men face each other at a distance. They seem to have the power to influence the behavior of the other. Their violent and fierce manipulations quickly blow them to the limit of the knockout. This struggle has the effect of animating the individuals around them in the dark space. Alain Chamfort is the link between these two spaces. He is the witness and the narrator. He walks in the dark towards a ray of light. In the air there are particles that gradually draw a yellow landscape, a chaotic exterior that indicates a post-apocalyptic era. A child appears in the distance through the yellowish fog. He walks in the midst of a group of women and men of all ages walking in the same direction, looking out at the horizon of a new land.

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OLD HOUSE, 4min,. Ukraine
Directed by Alexander Sparinsky
About the depth of the hypocrisy of the Russian invaders and the coming consequences of the grand adventure of the twenty-first century. For in addition to the woes and sorrows the war has brought to Ukraine, the Kremlin’s perfidious madness is destroying Muscovy itself.

http://sparinsky.kiev.ua/
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MR. RUN THROUGH YA GIRLFRIEND, 3min., USA
Directed by Chris Carthern, ToneTheGoat
A-Train decides to make a rap song to serve as his theme song.

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A STREET DOG NAMED DESIRE, 4min., USA
Directed by Nich Esposito
A journey through the streets and sewers with a hot dog dropped by a hapless street vendor.

L’ESCALE, 45min., France
Directed by Antoine Sextier
The 1960s, Paris, rue Monsieur Le Prince, in the “l’Escale” cabaret, Latin Americans live and share their music throughout the night.

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Jorge Peña Hen – The last hours of the Maestro, 14min., Chile
Directed by Alvaro Riquelme S.
Adaptation of the play by Maria Belen Espinoza Peña, Butoh Artist, and niece of Jorge Peña Hen, Orchesta Director murdered by the Caravana de la Muerte during Dictatorship in Chile

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Happy Birthday Brendan Fraser

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Born
December 3, 1968 · Indianapolis, Indiana, USA

Birth name
Brendan James Fraser

Spouse
Afton Smith (September 27, 1998 – April 17, 2008) (divorced, 3 children)

QUOTES:

You do a movie, Hollywood loves you for a while. They love you, they love you, they love you until…oh, they love someone else now. It’s not cyclical, it’s … it’s … ficklical!

I still don’t understand the music industry that much. Everything I learned was from hanging out with rock musicians in studios. I certainly have respect for those who make music their livelihood.

I guess darkness serves a purpose: to show us that there is redemption through chaos. I believe in that. I think that’s the basis of Greek mythology.

I have so much satisfaction in my life. I have a beautiful wife and the great stimulation of an interesting career. I’m the most happy fellow that I know.

I think you have to show homage to creators.

George of the Jungle is a cartoon. He’s a guy who swings around on a vine all day. Are you not buying that?

I’m starting to judge success by the time I have for myself, the time I spend with family and friends. My priorities aren’t amending; they’re shifting.

Happy Birthday Tiffany Haddish

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Born
December 3, 1979 · Los Angeles, California, USA

Birth name
Tiffany Sara Cornilia Haddish

Speaks fluent Japanese.

Tiffany lived in three foster homes after her mother lost custody of her and her siblings, when Tiffany was twelve. After two years, her grandmother was able to gain custody of Tiffany and her siblings.

When Tiffany was nine, her mother was in a car accident that triggered her schizophrenia. When she was twelve, she and her four siblings were placed into foster care.

Happy Birthday Daryl Hannah

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Born
December 3, 1960 · Chicago, Illinois, USA

Birth name
Daryl Christine Hannah

Spouse
Neil Young (July 27, 2018 – present)

QUOTES:

[on her arrest for protesting the demolition of Los Angeles’ South Central garden] I’m not thrilled about it, but I felt it was important to sustain my commitment.

I feel like I’m about 7. I always get shocked when I look in the mirror and see a grown-up.

I was a daydreamer when I was a child and I still am. I like fantasy a lot. It would be great if I could always play mythological characters.

[on addressing the skepticism of climate-change deniers] I make a concerted effort to do conservative media. People go, “Oh no, don’t do that. They’ll eat you alive.” But I don’t care; that’s what I need to do. I need to reach those people and at least give them the opportunity to listen to the information. I really believe if people have information, they will make wise decisions.

Happy Birthday Anna Chlumsky

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Born
December 3, 1980 · Chicago, Illinois, USA

Birth name
Anna Mary Chlumsky

QUOTES:

I pray every night. I just talk to God and I can go to sleep. I don’t worry anymore.

I love… anything in black and white

It creeped me out at first, but I guess it’s nice to know I still resonate in people’s minds. – about being recognized on her subway commute to work

They spoil you rotten. If you want a glass of milk, they run off to get you one. – about being on a movie set as a child actor

I really don’t like to do back-to-back movies. I concentrate on things at home. My family and school life are important to me. I try to do one movie a year.

Happy Birthday Jenna Dewan

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Born
December 3, 1980 · Hartford, Connecticut, USA

Birth name
Jenna Lee Dewan

Spouse
Channing Tatum (July 11, 2009 – September 25, 2024) (divorced, 1 child)

QUOTES:

Every hotel room, every apartment we rent, I am sage-ing. And I have crystals that I travel with. It just makes me feel better.

I would say I was always very ambitious and goal-oriented, but rather than being just a go-getter hustler, now I surrender a lot more and I trust my path a lot more.

I’m a huge karaoke fan. Oh my God. I’m one of those girls who don’t give the mic away. It’s a problem. I’m a closeted pop star.

I really like to act, and I really like to perform. I enjoy producing as well.

I always like Madonna; any Madonna song is good for me.

I had danced with Janet Jackson and P. Diddy so I had done a bunch of hip hop. Really and truly my roots are in modern and ballet but, professionally, that’s not really out there any more, unfortunately, so these artists aren’t really having a lot of ballet dancers behind them so I had to learn hip hop really quick.

I really didn’t know how people were going to react to ‘Magic Mike’ because there hasn’t been a movie like it.
There’s a reason women are pregnant for nine months; by the end, you’re ready to have this baby.

Happy Birthday Julianne Moore

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Born
December 3, 1960 · Fayetteville, North Carolina, USA

Birth name
Julie Anne Smith

Spouses
Bart Freundlich(August 23, 2003 – present) (2 children)
John Gould Rubin(May 3, 1986 – August 25, 1995) (divorced)

QUOTES:

[about the birth of her son, Cal Freundlich, and being a mother] It is the most wonderful experience of your life. It deepens absolutely everything. You have a greater understanding of things, so in a way it is a gift. For me it has made everything much better. I’m so happy; I am extremely fortunate.

I hesitate to call things companion pieces or to draw comparison between films because I think you reduce the films by doing that.

It’s true, the classic, iconic American ideal, that heroine, our idea of perfection is this blonde woman in a blue dress and a blue car.

That’s the beauty of what actors do, that you only have yourself as a resource. And so the trick is to find something in them that you connect to somewhere. And with every single one of my characters, I have to find something that I really understand and ultimately believe.

My parents were very liberal. That’s a misconception about the military. I’m a proud army brat. I love the military. It breaks my heart what this war [the Iraq war] has done to it. These back-door, draftlike returns of soldiers to the front – you don’t do that. You don’t send a soldier back three or four times. That’s not OK.

When someone says, “I’m not political”, I feel like what they’re saying is, “I only care about myself. In my bathtub. Me and my bathtub is what I care about”.

There’s always a female audience. But we will only go if they make movies for us because we’re just too busy. It makes me crazy when people ask why women don’t go to the movies. Number one, there are no movies for us and, number two, we have jobs and families. I never get out of the house with two little kids. If I go, I want to know it really is something for me. I want it to be relevant to me.

The great disappointment is that when you’re acting, you’ve literally become a different person in your head, and when you see it you go, Oh! It’s the same face! You feel sometimes so limited by your physiognomy. You are desperately trying to look different, but it doesn’t always work. There are some things that you can change, but unfortunately you’re always left with the same face.